"LIFE OF CHRIST."

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1934, Page 7

"LIFE OF CHRIST."

Warning Against Publication Of Dickens' Work. OFFER REFUSED BY SON. LONDON, January 14. On behalf of the late Sir Henry Dickens' widow, who claims the copyright, solicitors have issued a warning against the publication in its entirety or of extracts from the "Life of Christ." It is believed that an American publisher, during Sir Henry's lifetime, offered £10,000 for the manuscript, but the offer was rejected on sentimental grounds. Sir Henry, however, indicated that he would not object to the publication of the work after his death.

NO NATIONAL CHURCH?

ATTEMPTS IN GERMANY. (Received 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, Januai-y 14. The Vice-Chancellor of Germany, Herr von Papen, addressing a Catholic Labour gathering at Gleiwitz, declared that Nazi-ism was in accord with the Pope's ideas, which Germany was the first State in the world to recognise and put into practice. Attempts to create a national church need not be taken seriously.

GERMANY HITS BACK.

TRENCH IMPORT QUOTAS. (Received 1.30 p.m.) BERLIN, January 14. As a reprisal the French reduction of quotas oil imports from Germany, the latter is imposing quotas on a number of French products, which will reduce imports from France to the extent of £1/250,000 a year.